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I came across this sentence 'Alpha Tower Apartment, Project by Stars Company' on a signboard.

What is the difference between 'Project by' and 'Project of'?
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I came across this sentence 'Alpha Tower Apartment, Project by Stars Company' on a signboard.

What is the difference between 'Project by' and 'Project of'?
To me, project by means something like project created by someone, and project of conveys the message that project is in somebody's possession.
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I've never heard of a "project of".

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I may not be a qualified teacher yet, but I've done plenty of project work!
This reminds me a situation with "an article by Smith" and "an article of Smith". If I remember that well, I asked about this in this forum quite a long time ago (though what a year is for the Universe!) and the final conclusion was that it should be "an article by Smith", the construction I've been using since that time though I sometimes come across the "an article of Smith" use.

Am I doing well? And is this a similar situation as that with a project by/of?

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